Written questions
355 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Jan 2025 · Home Office
Stalking
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to tackle stalking by putting victims first and increasing the protections available to them.
17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Retail Trade: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to take steps with local councils to help increase footfall on the high street.
17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Small Businesses: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on trends in the level of growth of small and medium-sized businesses.
17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade
Small Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help support small and medium-sized businesses to compete with online retailers.
17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Haemochromatosis: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase diagnosis levels for genetic haemochromatosis.
17 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Metropolitan Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of comments made by Sir Mark Rowley to the London Policing Board on 10 December 2024 in relation to (a) funding and (b) po
11 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Crimes of Violence: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce youth-related gang violence in London.
11 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Further Education: Pay Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether teachers in post-16 education will be included in the teacher pay award.
11 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Motor Vehicles: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle car thefts in Sutton and Cheam constituency.
11 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Knives: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the Metropolitan Police to deploy educational awareness campaigns aimed at reducing youth-related knife crime in London.
11 Dec 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help small and medium high street businesses manage energy costs in Sutton and Cheam constituency.
11 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Shops: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of vacant shops on high streets in London.
11 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Small Businesses: Sutton and Cheam
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support small and medium sized high street businesses with (a) rising rents, (b) business rates and (c) rises in employer National Insuranc
11 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit: Sutton and Cheam
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible pensioners have applied for Pension Credit in Sutton and Cheam constituency since 1 August 2024.
10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to criminalise the practice of bots reselling driving tests at inflated prices.
10 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide extra funding to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to help tackle backlogs in driving tests.
2 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
South Western Railway: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the quality of the service provided to passengers on South Western Railway.
2 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport
South Western Railway: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to reverse fare increases introduced in 2024 on South Western Railway when it is brought into public ownership in 2025.
29 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Performance Certificates: Council Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what funding is available to local councils to support the retrofitting of local authority homes in London to achieve an EPC grade C by 2030.
29 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve road safety for people (a) walking, (b) wheeling and (c) cycling.
29 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Leasehold
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing residential leaseholds.
29 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Pakistan: Diplomatic Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help protect the rights of minority groups in Pakistan.
29 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Nationalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking through her policy of public ownership of the railways to (a) tackle last-minute train cancellations and (b) improve service reliability.
29 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
South Western Rail Franchise: Nationalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of bringing South Western Railway into public ownership.
29 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport
Railways: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to re-instate late night services at Worcester Park station.
26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure UK blood cancer patients can access effective new therapies that are available to patients overseas but have been subject to NICE terminated appraisals.
26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of cases of late diagnoses of blood cancers in emergency NHS settings.
26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of non-specific symptom pathways in diagnosing blood cancers in each of the last three years.
14 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Hong Kong: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong on human rights violations in that region.
14 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish a 2024 progress report for the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme; and what steps he is taking to ensure that the programme continues to support (a) (i) perinatal
Source: official written-questions record.